Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. They have changed their IT functions utilizing three related management interventions which, taken together, represent a fundamental re-invention of IT.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

When organizations want to build a process culture, they need to identify leaders for each process improvement effort—namely an Executive Sponsor, Process Owner, Project Lead and Business Process Management (BPM) Team Facilitator. Reduce time to market for this product). and then turn them into improvement targets (e.g,

BPM 56

BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Related Video.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Haier’s organizational reinventions allow it to accelerate the time to market for its Tianzun advanced household heater/air conditioner/air purifier — a potentially disruptive advantage in what is a slow-moving industry. Again, this is true disruption (although not particularly successful outside of China so far).

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. This way, they can respond very quickly to new or changing customer needs, incrementally. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time. Managers have come a long way in the past 20 years toward appreciating its role in their strategies. It was in 1990 that George Stalk and Tom Hout of BCG published Competing Against Time , pointing out that time was an unexploited aspect of competitiveness.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

But to get beyond the hype, managers need to understand some underlying challenges and paradigm shifts. Operations in a Connected World. This is often overlooked by managers, but it is a big deal. The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0 Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

ROE 13

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

You have to understand these fundamentals to craft trade-policy prescriptions — which, by the way, I think the free trade agreements largely do: A thick supplier market. Manufacturers want to be close to their suppliers, because this can speed time to market and minimize the risk of disruptions. bound panels to Malaysia.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8